Asus M5A97 R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	15.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus M5A97 R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '16 at 22:18
Run Duration	243 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.9% Good	Memory 84.6 1-Core 77 2-Core 151 63% 104 Pts	4-Core 288 8-Core 454 46% 371 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250X 12,863 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Sapphire(174B E214) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2311.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	15.8% Very poor	Lighting 19.7 Reflection 19.1 Parallax 25.8 16% 21.5 fps	MRender 15.5 Gravity 18.4 Splatting 21.1 15% 18.3 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 15.8% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5674 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 410 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 56 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 286 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7819918159
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 961GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 38906072 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1167 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6341125 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20348 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1110 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 56 13508018212 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 833 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 53008 (C2) HDA temperature 36 44 -140737488355292 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -106648332909892 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14628239329 (F2) Unknown 100 253 61799351160	92.9% Outstanding	Read 150 Write 174 Mixed 170 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 493GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 234106398 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2717 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 340079838 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42869 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2663 (B7) Unknown 1 1 444 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 42950459615 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 52 606208034 (C2) HDA temperature 34 48 73014444066 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 22 234106398 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1458 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -99351183441707 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3137343129 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3430500459	57.6% Above average	Read 103 Write 97.8 Mixed 69.7 67% 90.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.4 88% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 68%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 435GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 167 4183 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1112 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19507 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1074 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 791 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 140 140 181631 (C2) HDA temperature 113 103 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	62.8% Good	Read 111 Write 108 Mixed 114 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.26 104% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 84%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 320GB free Firmware: 50.0AB50 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 161 6066 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3219 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 36 36 46912 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3127 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1948 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 148 148 156758 (C2) HDA temperature 117 101 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43% Average	Read 74.5 Write 75.1 Mixed 62.7 53% 70.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.11 56% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 59%
WDC WD20 EZRZ-00Z5HB0 2TB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 847GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	55.2% Above average	Read 136 Write 131 Mixed 105 156% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.28 88% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 56%
WDC WD10 EARS-00MVWB0 1TB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 388GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	45.9% Average	Read 112 Write 106 Mixed 61.4 114% 93 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 46%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C11 1x8GB 1,470 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (62^nd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	27.8% Poor	MC Read 9.2 MC Write 9.2 MC Mixed 7.8 25% 8.73 GB/s	SC Read 8.8 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 8 24% 8.37 GB/s	Latency 72.4 55% 72.4 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 27.8% Great: 33%

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Gaming 23%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

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Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 - $89

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	868x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	645x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	439x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	186x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	160x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	120x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	86x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	83x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	77x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	85x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	55x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	50x

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Total price: $357

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16